5 July 2022 - Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has determined to terminate Zimbabwean Exemption Permits forthwith. This is the desperate act of a panicked government.
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5 July 2022 - The publication of the Report of the Zondo Commission – or to give it its full name, the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector Including Organs of State – is a potential landmark for South Africa.
5 July 2022 - South Africa is now in the grip of a governance crisis that threatens the very fabric of its society and the endurance of its democratic order. It must be said at the outset that this was not in the main the consequence of a tragic history or external catastrophe, even if both of those things played a role. Rather, the country is at this point because choices have been made that have pushed it there.
4 July 2022 - I wonder why I feel so nervous about writing this article. All I am doing is finally admitting what I should have known over 40 years ago, that the ANC is not only corrupt, not only cruel and greedy, not only incompetent and useless at serving the people of South Africa, not only power mad, but evil.
4 July 2022 - In his weekly newsletter, President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the consequences of state capture.
1 July 2022 - You can’t trust someone who won’t eat meat. Luckily, our ever-alert government has cracked down on the perfidy of duplicitous vegetarians and vegans.
Cut the reddest tape at Eskom – IRR
1 July 2022 - Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan has boldly called for the scrapping of all “the damn red tape” inhibiting power production and prolonging South Africa’s struggle under Stage 6 load-shedding. It’s time for action to match the words.
1 July 2022 - News24 readers are indebted to Gwede Mantashe and Siya Khumalo for expanding the conversation around the African National Congress' policy and practice of cadre deployment. ("Mantashe slams Zondo, says apartheid officials would still be in charge without cadre deployment" and "If DA uses tone-sensitive communication, it can get buy-in on cadre deployment stance", both 25 June).
Launch of the Free Speech Union South Africa
29 June 2022 - The Institute of Race Relations is proud to announce the formation of the Free Speech Union South Africa (FSU SA).
28 June 2022 - While pitting constitutional democracies and capitalism against Marxist-inspired ideologies, the last Cold War slowed South Africa’s political transition. Today’s version, about authoritarianism versus representative forms of government, can aid opportunists seeking to undermine our democratic institutions.
26 June 2022 - The same risk that attended the decline of the once seemingly invulnerable National Party from the end of the 1980s once more looms ever larger as the inevitability of the ANC’s downfall gains credence.
24 June 2022 - It’s a lazy cliché that South Africa is a divided society, when in reality there are many things that unite us. Unfortunately, some of the most powerful experiences all South Africans share are of trauma rather than triumph.